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Josh Moon

Josh Moon is an investigative reporter and columnist. You can reach him at [email protected].

Legislature

Among the prefiled GOP garbage, there is one good bill

Thank you, Randy Wood. Given the current race to the bottom that is occurring within the Republican primary for Alabama’s U.S. Senate seat, and given the various pandering bills that have been prefiled and those that are still to come, I was starting to wonder if there was a single GOP lawmaker left in this … Continued

Josh Moon

January 27, 2020

District 2 candidates criticize Coleman over fraud allegations

Jeff Coleman has no friends on the campaign trail. After APR published a story on Wednesday that recapped the U.S. government’s fraud allegations against his moving company in 2015, Coleman’s challengers in the race for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District seat piled on. Heavy. “Jeff Coleman taking advantage of military families in a time of war … Continued

Josh Moon

January 23, 2020

Legal filings, evidence, witnesses paint a disturbing picture in fraud case against Coleman Moving Company

In the late-2000s, Scot Dannen, the general manager of a Coleman Worldwide Moving facility in Colorado Springs, Co., was approached by one of the company’s truck drivers and asked an odd question. The driver wanted to know where Dannen’s “weight crate” was located, according to testimony Dannen provided under oath in a deposition. Dannen was … Continued

Josh Moon

January 22, 2020

Opinion

We should hold the appropriate people responsible for bullying

Madison County seems to have a problem with homophobia. Over the weekend, a gay couple who live in Madison recorded a car load of James Clemens High baseball players riding by and shouting slurs at the couple’s home. The video, which was recorded on an outside security camera, was uploaded to social media and a … Continued

Josh Moon

January 16, 2020

Opinion

Andrew Brasher still isn’t fit to serve as a federal judge

It is not news that Donald Trump has nominated partisan hacks to serve as federal judges — at pretty much every level. Hacks are his thing. (In reality, Trump likely has never nominated anyone, just stamped his absurd signature on whatever list of rightwing idealogues the Federalist Society plopped down in front him.) But I … Continued

Josh Moon

January 15, 2020

Opinion

ASU sure is boring these days

Try this: Do a Google news search for “Alabama State University,” and check out the results. Boring, right? What a difference a couple of years of good leadership can make. I’ve covered ASU for most of my career as a reporter and columnist. My first job in newspapers, when I was still in college, was … Continued

Josh Moon

January 13, 2020

Opinion

On medical marijuana, listen to doctors, not Steve Marshall

Deaths from opioid overdoses in 2018: 47,600. Deaths from marijuana overdoses in all recorded history: 0. These are fairly important numbers if you’re making an argument that medical marijuana shouldn’t be legalized because opioids are also used for pain and they’ve been a big problem. I know that sounds a really dumb argument to make, … Continued

Josh Moon

January 10, 2020

Opinion

Only one kind of “school choice” matters

Get ready to party, kids. Gov. Kay Ivey on Monday issued a proclamation that Jan. 26-Feb. 1, would officially be known as “school choice week” in Alabama. The week will feature dozens of events and parties and just a grand ol’ good time, as we all come together and celebrate the decision to allow Alabama’s … Continued

Josh Moon

January 8, 2020

Opinion

There are good reasons to be concerned about the killing of Suleimani

No one cares about the terrorist. Let me be crystal clear about that. Qassim Suleimani was an evil guy who seemed dead set on killing Americans and American allies, and I don’t much care that he’s dead. I felt the same way about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last year. And the same way about Osama bin … Continued

Josh Moon

January 6, 2020

Alabama Supreme Court sends ADP fight back to Montgomery

The fight for control of the Alabama Democratic Party is going back to Montgomery County Circuit Court. The Alabama Supreme Court on New Year’s Eve dismissed an appeal related to the jurisdiction of the case in which Nancy Worley, the former head of the Alabama Democratic Party, filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop … Continued

Josh Moon

January 3, 2020